He glanced up to the Mage, seeing he was watched, and decided he'd run out of ideas. Either he could fathom the maze of the stairs, which swam before ...is eyes if he looked too long, or he could go through this wall. He suspected the Mage wanted him to go through.Not being an individual who was susceptible to indecision, Kroofus rammed the head of his axe into the wall, causing a great hole to appear. Pausing only long enough to glance through to see an empty chamber within, he crumbled the rest. He learned that millennia of human travail and pain have created a certain insularity of existence: each soul is singular; each moves through life alone, making choices, questing, seeking acceptance and resolution. A soul might seek to center itself on a chosen path and move steadily toward an ultimate destination, or it might stray and lose itself in lust or anger or grief, ultimately to waste itself, alone and forlorn in the void of dissolution.Fr. Ambrose lived as a solitary pilgrim. ”There was silence broken by the gentle sloshing of alcohol as Pat stirred her finger inside the glass.“Alick, does Eleanor own a passport?”He grinned. “You’re clever. I knew I was right to involve you.”She replaced her spectacles and returned to her study.June 6thTonight’s the big night - when I meet the luscious Hanover. Vera and I spent yesterday in Albany, where we chose evening gowns and accessories, and most of today was at the beauticians. Jack considers we’re making a great deal of fuss. We figured a weekend of fun with friends was in order to get our minds off the future. This was the first year that Kate and her husband Kent were going to attend the weekend trip. We set camp on Friday night and canoed on Saturday. The trip started out nice and easy, but the river picked up its pace shortly. Kate and Kent were screaming at each other to the point the rest of us were getting uncomfortable. At the first stop, Ella suggested that we split Kate and Kent to end the bickering..